"There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts."

-- Thomas Huxley

#Truth Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Light Quotes

“There's no question that positive thinking has a place in business. [...just as it has in the the rest of a happy, successful person's life.]”
“Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”

Source : "Accelerated Learning in Practice". Book by Alistair Smith, p. 234, 1998.
“The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.”
“We live in a world where there are a hell of a lot of new inputs that need to be factored in to your business. It used to be just about your employees and your customers. Now there are all the issues about global warming, about sustainability, about ethics and now about gender and the distribution of wealth.”
“There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.”
“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams”
“The way I grew up, I was always taught that it's uncouth to talk about money, and that's not what should inspire you.”
“I kan noght parfitly my Paternoster as the preest it syngeth,But I kan rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolf Erl of Chestre.”

Source : William Langland (2015). “Piers Plowman”, p.59, Booklassic

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